FireClay and FireBricks
Fire Bricks and Fireclay.
The area to the North of Coatbridge was noted for the manufacture and supply of Fire Clay products especially Furnace lining bricks and pipework for the iron and steel industry which was flourishing in the nearby industrial towns. These products were also exported all over the industrial world.
Here we provide links to our own pages on bricks as well as links to web sites with similar interests.
- Garnkirk Bricks
- Mining & Manufacturing Methods
- Clay & Bricks - Story of Glenboig Union Fireclay Co
- Fireclay Mining Clay being mined and firebricks being moulded at Glenboig.
- Notes on other works - Heathfield, Heatheryknowe etc
- Gartliston Brickworks - P& M Hurll - Bob McMillan
- - Just a small part of the Summerlee Collection
- The International Brick Collectors Association If you're a brick collector, you may be interested in this organization:
- Bricks, Brickyards & Brick Collecting in Texas
- Brick Making by US Army (ordinary bricks)
- Nothing's too humble to collect - even bricks Ohio man's array tells of industrial past
- The Gold Rush - Brick Stories from Alaska
- Brick Mysteries
Links to some other websites -
Provided by www.penmorfa.com
- International Brick Collectors association An American site with a vast number of bricks
- British Brick Society For the serious student
- How bricks are made, old video Clay being mined and firebricks being moulded at Glenboig.
- Porth Wen My website on an abandoned Anglesey brickworks
- Brickwork - the historic development its history over 600 years
- Brick and pottery making in Oxfordshire the industry in Nettlebed
- Monklands Memories brickmaking in North Lanarkshire
- Brickwork companies in Fife good site with plenty of photos
- Brick production in Stamford a local history
- Laurence Skuse's brick collection covering South East Wales
- Tarboats brick collection mainly North West England
- Alan's brick collection mainly North West England
- Brickmaking in Stoke on Trent A brief history
- Duncan Cunningham A leading authority on specially shaped bricks
- Vladimir N Smirnov A brick collector in St Petersburg, Russia
- Tatiana Kazaeva Another Russian collector, plenty of photos
- John Pitman's collection Mainly North West England
- Brikostampophile A French collectors site
- Old frechevillian's photostream Mainly East Midlands bricks
- Old British Bricks A large collection on Flickr
- One Brick A large collection on Flickr
- Rotherham brick making Brief history of the industry in the town
- Express Bricks The history of bricks
- Les Anciennes Briqueteries Another French site
- The Brick Directory Links to every brickmaker in the U.K. from this site
- Brickmaking in Armadale Very informative Scottish site
- A J Mugridge Brickmaker at Blist's Hill Victorian Town, Ironbridge
- The scran database. Royal Commission for Ancient &
Historical Monuments in Scotland - Home Made Bricks Richard from Indiana makes his own bricks!
- A Survey of Scottish Brickmarks, 1986 A very useful resource for the collector
- Museum of the Boom brickworks in Belgium Website of this preserved site (in Flemish)
- The Brick Carver Jan will carve bricks to order!
- Andrew Gardners photostream Bricks found on walks in North East England
- Brickworks of the Bridgend area The history of 11 brickworks in South Wales
- Local brick Making Notts/Derbyshire area
- The brickmakers of St. Albans A local history by Chris Reynolds
- Gareth Thomas's site Mainly South Wales
- The Brickmakers Index U.K. database of brickworks owners and workers